Housing benefit reforms should not go ahead, warned government advisers

The government's housing benefit shakeup will have damaging effects on poor families, according to the assessments. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

The government's own social security advisers warned ministers "not to go ahead" with housing benefit reforms that risked increasing levels of homelessness and crime and would seriously disrupt poor children's schooling, in reports released on the day the controversial welfare changes became law. Read More: